Bull-wheel cleaheb



w. A. DEGILBE RTAND BJ GARLAND. BULL WHEEL CLEANER. APIiLlCATIOR FILED NOV. 6.1918.

mmm Patented N0V, ;-1919.

INVENTORS W A J9 w/eri 5 & Ben Garland 4 g ATTORNEY all] WILLIAM a. DEGILBERT ANnBnN GARLAND, or wrnnows, oanrronnm.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 6, 1918. Serial No. 261,355

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, VVILLIAM A. DEcn.-

"full, clear, and exact description of the same,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this application.

This invention relates to improvements in cleaning devices for the bull or drive wheel of a hinder or harvester, the principal object of the invention. being to produce a de vice for keeping the bull or drive wheel of a hinder or harvester clean during the operation of the same over the fields, and which will prevent the dirt and mud which accumulates on the edges of the bull wheel from remaining there and possibly become passed from the wheel on to various other parts of the machinery of the binder as the wheel revolves.

This'device is particularly adapted to be used with binders used for rice harvesting, the growing rice requiring large quantities of water which keeps the ground in a very soft condition, which condition renders the bull wheel of the binder very liable to pick up quantities of mud in its traversal of the rice field.

Another object has been to produce a cleaner for the purpose described which may readily be attached to any binder without any alteration thereof.

As a third object, we have provided a simple and inexpensive device, and yet one which will be extremely eflicient for the purpose for which it is designed.

These objects we accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

@n the drawings, similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a binder showing our thereto.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the cleaner itself.

improved cleaner attached Referring now more particularly to the figures of reference on the drawings, the numeral 1 represents the binder having the usual bull or main supporting wheel 2.

The cleaner comprises a frame consisting of a pair of sleds or runners 3 suitably spaced apart a distance somewhat greater than the width of the wheel 2. These sleds are connected at both ends by bolts l, which are either provided with nuts on each side of each sled or with a sleeve or pipe spacer as indicated by 5. Secured to the under surface of the sleds and suitably positioned thereon is a pair of metal scrapingplates 6, whose inner edges 7 project beyond the edges of the sleds so that the plates are spaced apart a distance very little more than the width of the hull wheel. Therear ends of the sleds are shod with iron straps 8, the sleds themselves being preferably constructed of wood.

On the bolt 4 at the forward end of the sleds is pivotally hung a member 9, which is provided with an eye 10 in its upper end and is adapted to be hung to the frame of the binder thereby, at any suitable point on said frame forward of the wheel 2, an extension 11 being connected to the member 9 if necessary to position the cleaner correctly with regard to the frame of thebinder, without attaching any extra parts to the latter. The normal position of the cleaner is as shown in Fig. 1, with the forward end suspended by the member 9 and clearing the ground somewhat, the rear end dragging along the ground and bearing on the shoes 8.

In operation, the cleaner is attached to the binder all the time it is traversing the fields, the mud picked up by the wheel being scraped off by the plates 6 before it can be passed by the wheel on to other parts of the machinery.

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From the foregoing description it will be binder, a cleaner therefor comprising a pair and to the frame of the binder to keep the of'runners positioned one on either side runners clear of the ground, the rear end thereof and suitably connected together at thereof riding on the ground, whereby the their ends, a pair of metal scraping plates dirt collected by the Wheel will be removed 5 independent of the runners and secured to therefrom immediately after leaving con- 15 the under side thereof and projecting in tact with the ground. ardly a distance such that their adjacent In testimony whereof We affix our signa- :edges are spaced slightly more than the tures. Width of the Wheel, and a hanger pivotally WILLIAM A. DEGILBERT. 10 connected to the forward end of the runners BEN GARLAND. 

